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@kpblitzen42 and I are trying to learn new cusswords. So, we are revamping a bag of broken bits formed into a giant log aka a Class A RV. This week we finished with wallpaper (never again will I buy such garbage…but it looks good) and putting down truly inexpensive flooring that looks pretty awesome if you ask me.
My goal was to get just the slide out complete for our first camping trip. I will post another picture when I get that area complete so you can all publicly question my aesthetic tastes. It’s all for fun and the RV should reflect that.
I’ll try to do a progress picture every month so I have some sort of pressure.
Not seen: Very simple collapsable table I found on Marketplace, chairs, drapery (on it’s way), fold down futon (in the garage currently), and I guess this picture is pre-flooring…but it looks good I assure you.
What have we done?:
Ripped out all the furniture
Started painting the cabinets - properly not quick at all (ugh)
Ripped out all of the carpet (not a job for the faint of heart)
Taken out the…I’m not sure what they are called valances I suppose the puffy things around a window that are just super dated
Taken down really expensive solar blinds and cleaned them and now I’m questioning putting them back up
Worked on the engine
Cussed the engine
Tried to figure out how we could set it on fire and blame lightning
Put up some swank but shit wallpaper
Tried in desperation to remove some of the wood flooring (working with an oscillating tool with no movement SOOOO much glue)
Sealed the floors
Started replacing some of the lighting
Between trying to sell a home, find a home, working full time, tending to family, and general life it’s hard to dedicate time to work on this beast. It’s going slow. SLOOOWW.
If anyone has some ideas about how to remove the wood floors please share
I wish I had a picture - this is in the kitchen section…everything else was this mauve carpet action that hadn’t been vacuumed proper in 20 years.
Real wood flooring - glued onto a cheaper panel and that’s slathered in glue onto the “sub floor” although I don’t think it’s technically called that. It LOOKS like you could just hammer it out with a prybar and something to be angry about but it’s a brick of glue and either I’m not strong enough or it’s just a solid brick of hellfire. I’ve tried getting an osculating tool under it but it’s not budging. I’ve tried to slice down into it…that I need better tools to do. I’m at a loss and I don’t have pictures to share right now so I just sound like I’m on a rant.
It’s a little crooked and the glaze was a little grainy so there’s a couple “pokeys” that means it’s probably not food safe, so trinket bowl it is, but that’s okay. We all gotta start somewhere, right?
I finished three quilts in the last couple of weeks.
First one is a retirement gift for a friend. It’s only been seven months since he did so… He has a “thing” for wolves, so it is made from a pile of wolf panels I found (large pictures printed on fabric). The kaleidoscope effect four patches were made by stacking four panels, whacking them into pieces, then sewing the individual stacks of pieces into blocks. A fifth panel was incorporated into the back of the quilt, so you can see what created the front.
The second is a fairly simple quilt for the grandson of a good friend. It was made from a big pile of flannel fat quarters I had acquired some years ago for next-to-nothing. I had planned to use a pattern, and pieced all the blocks according to the pattern, but when I put it up on the design wall, meh… So pulled the blocks off the wall and started slapping them up in a pattern of my own doing. Which I liked better than the original pattern, but was not all that excited about. Now that it’s been quilted and washed, and it’s all soft and poufy, I find I like it a lot! Handed it off to grandma tonight.
The last one started with a fabric panel featuring vintage Farmall tractor illustrations and advertising slicks. The husband of a good friend is an avid vintage Farmall tractor collector. I thought “Hey! a little quilt for Jim!” Then promptly misplaced the fabric. When it resurfaced recently, I began second-guessing my “quilt for Jim” plan, as he is married to a quilter. So is a quilt a good thing to saddle him with? Asked Marie, who advised me to make it as a Covers for Kids quilt. (donated to charities). So I began cutting up the panel parts and planning a layout. This guy turned out to be one of those annoying projects that talks/whines to me CONSTANTLY. Whining about wanting pieced stars to fill the blank spots. Sashing. More color. Pittooee. By the time I finished, I had invested three days in the piecing process. So I contacted Marie and inquired whether one of the tractor clubs might like it for a fundraiser item once they are able to meet again. She thought that was a good idea - until she showed my photo to Jim. Who decided he wanted it. So it’s going to it’s original intended recipient! Yippee!
I did the piecing on all three projects at various retreat days at the Best Little Retreat Center in Texas here in Dallas. The quilting was also done there, by renting time on one of the owners computer-guided longarm quilting machines. (which is a lot harder than it sounds…)
Prototype for a first of twelve ornaments I’m preparing for a class in July (Christmas in July). Veneered woods 4" tall. Weighs only 0.2 ounces so it won’t bring the tree down.
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